Cher’s hugely successful Dressed To Kill Tour has provided a much need lift of her 2013 studio album Closer to the Truth to re-enter the Billboard 200 nearly a year after its original release. Originally debuted at No. 3 last September, Closer to the Truth provided the ageless diva her highest-charting solo album ever.

According to Billboard.com, the Goddess of Pop’s 25th studio album has enjoyed a jump in sales of a 125 percent, which has propelled it back onto the charts at No. 70. The sudden boost has been attributed to a recent e-mail reminder sent to fans who ordered album bundle packages when they purchased Cher D2K concert tickets. The concert ticket bundle package is a fairly recent marketing tool, which has been used with great success by other big name acts like Bon Jovi and Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers. Only albums that are redeemed by the consumer count as a sale, which also helps accounts for the belated sales leap.

Billboard recently predicted Cher’s D2K Tour is on its way to becoming the top grossing tour of 2014. The first leg of the ageless pop diva’s D2K North American tour ended July 11 and has already grossed nearly $55 million.

The “Believe” hitmaker extended her farewell run into November. Currently on hiatus, the next round of dates kick off Sept. 11 in Albany, New York, at Times Union Center and wrap up Nov. 3 in Wichita, Kansas, at Intrust Bank Arena. Canadian stops on the upcoming run include two new shows on Oct. 24 – Oct. 25 at Toronto’s Air Canada Centre. For more information, check out AXS.com. Cher will continue her tour and take it worldwide in 2015.

Did you know? Cher sold out all 49 D2K shows on the initial run and grossed $54.9 million. The tour has attracted a total of 610,812 attendees thus far and earned its largest gross on May 25 in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand Garden Arena ($1.75 million).

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/closer-truth-propels-back-billboard-200/feed/6Cher I Walk Alone (Tracy Young Remix) Premierehttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-walk-alone-tracy-young-remix-premiere/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-walk-alone-tracy-young-remix-premiere/#commentsSun, 16 Mar 2014 05:49:12 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6367In conjunction with her Dressed To Kill Tour kicking off in Phoenix March 22, Cher and Tracey Young have joined forced to create the "I Walk Alone Tracey Young Remix".

]]>In conjunction with her Dressed To Kill Tour kicking off in Phoenix March 22, Cher and Tracey Young have joined forced to create the “I Walk Alone Tracey Young Remix”.

“I Walk Alone” is the third club single from Cher’s “Closer to the Truth” album which has been criticized heavily for poor promotions from Warner Bros. Young — who has provided official remixes for everyone from Madonna to Britney Spears — also remixed Cher’s “Woman’s World.”

“I was instantly excited to start this project for three reasons,” Young tells Billboard. “One, stating the obvious, working with Cher again. Secondly, I relate to this song lyrically because it echoes where I am at this moment in my life. Lastly, it was so refreshing because I felt this song is in a perfect tempo and it’s also one of my favorites on the album.”

While “I Walk Alone” is Cher’s newest single for clubs, she continues to scale Billboard’s Adult Contemporary airplay chart with the ballad “I Hope You Find It,” another track from “Closer to the Truth.” The song rises 24-20 on the March 22-dated Adult Contemporary chart — her highest-charting solo AC hit since “Song for the Lonely” reached No. 11 in 2002.

In other news Cher has revealed that she will not be working with Bob Mackie on this tour ending their 42 year partnership..

“Telling you Something That Has BROKEN MY HEART,” Cher tweeted. “THE MAN WHO MADE ALL MY COSTUMES SINCE 1972 DECIDED HE COULDNT DO MY LAST TOUR.” The diva continued, “NO MATTER HOW DISAPPOINTED ANY OF U ARE, YOU DONT KNOW MY GRIEF. IM SURE BOB CANT KNOW HOW MUCH I MISS HIM.FELT I HAD TO TELL U IM CRYING. I TRIED TO CONVINCE HIM TO END WITH ME,BUT HE HAD MANY REASONS As 2 Why He couldn’t do it. 2 many obligations Not Enough Time EVEN 2 DO 1.”

Luckily, Cher has already found a replacement who has worked with her on the Farewell Tour previously. “THANK GOD I HAVE A LOVELY MAN & WONDERFUL DESIGNER !! HUGH DURANT. HE IS TALENTED & BRAVE,” she tweeted. “WE WILL PERSEVERE.”

You can still buy tickets to see CHER perform live for her Dressed To Kill Tour here.

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-walk-alone-tracy-young-remix-premiere/feed/13Cher blasts WB Promotion of CTTThttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-blasts-wb-promotion-cttt/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-blasts-wb-promotion-cttt/#commentsSat, 08 Feb 2014 00:57:34 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6343Cher has now lashed out at Warner Bros treatment of her new album Closer To The Truth. Warner Bros have simply failed to back Closer To The Truth without any serious promotional campaign or strategy.

Fans waited and waited for a new album, time passed by, the years passed ever so slowly and the tweets were endless and finally Closer To The Truth was released… Debuting at number 4, Closer to the Truth – Cher’s 25th studio album – was her highest-charting UK release in more than two decades. Back in the US, it was her highest-charting solo album ever, selling 63,000 copies in its first week and peaking at No 3. So why did momentum just seem to STOP, no new proper music videos, no promotions while CTTT continued to fall down the charts? Well Cher has now lashed out at Warner Bros treatment of her new album Closer To The Truth. Warner Bros have simply failed to back Closer To The Truth without any serious promotional campaign or strategy. Closer To The Truth clearly did not flop, but Warner Bros promotions or lack of failed miserably. The only videos we saw after the lackluster Woman’s World music video was the simple lyric video for I Hope You Find It and the horrendously bad lyric videos for “Take It Like a Man”, all pushed by Warner Bros to zero effect.

“It’s true [Warner Brothers] hasn’t got a Great Deal of Interest In My CD,” Cher wrote on twitter. “Not ALL [the staff], THERE R HARD WORKING ADORABLE PPL. But Decision Makers Don’t Seem 2Care That Much.”

In what some critics claim a masterpiece and some of Cher’s best work to date, some countries around the world would not even realize Cher has a new album, with no advertisements, press, posters, zero promotions from Warner Bros records. The album simply relied on Cher’s star power appearances on US TV and in Europe without any follow up promos from Warner Bros. This record company is clearly disrespecting a LIVING LEGEND and offending her fan base by refusing to promote her.

Closer to the Truth has notched two hit singles on Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart: “Woman’s World” hit No. 1 last year, and “Take It Like a Man” recently peaked at No. 2 for two weeks.

Cher has little time to worry, preparing for her upcoming Dressed to Kill concert tour, which kicks off on Mar. 22 in Phoenix. Cher Tickets are selling like hotcakes and the tour will be her first since her successful Farewell Tour, which circled the globe from 2002 through 2005. Cher has also declared “It’s Ok YHSTLOM” (You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me) in a tweet, hopefully next time it will be with a new label.

What is your opinion of how Closer To The Truth has been treated and promoted by Warner Bros?

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-blasts-wb-promotion-cttt/feed/83Cher on Dancing with the Starshttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-on-dancing-with-the-stars/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-on-dancing-with-the-stars/#commentsTue, 05 Nov 2013 10:49:30 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6265Dancing with the Stars celebrated 'Cher Night' - with the pop superstar performing twice and all the dances of the night being to her songs.

Dancing with the Stars celebrated ‘Cher Night’ – with the pop superstar performing twice and all the dances of the night being to her songs.

Cher started the evening in a short zigzag patterned dress to perform her smash hit BELIEVE. Later in the show Cher also sang her new single I Hope You Find It wearing a huge black feather headdress. The contestants danced to Cher’s hits including Womans World, Turn Back Time and I Found Someone.

The stars admitted they were intimidated, with Corbin Bleu calling her a ‘god’ and comedian Bill Engvall saying she was always ‘one of my fantasy girls’.

‘Cher, my biggest fear was that I was going to meet you tonight and go, “Hi, my name is Oh-my-God-there’s-Cher!”,’ he later admitted to her.

Jack Osbourne, meanwhile, called her ‘a legend’ and admitted: ‘I’m not sure if I’m going to be nervous – or just terrified.’

Cher also happily poked fun at her diva-like reputation. When host Tom Bergeron told her she could do anything she wanted – even order pizza – she quipped: ‘As everyone knows, I don’t know how to call out for pizza.’

Cher said that as a judge she was looking for ‘the star quality, the thing that you can’t put your finger on’, telling Brant: ‘It’s the thing – like the smile that you did – that special thing.’

‘It’s true, you have star quality,’ Carrie Ann agreed. ‘I think out of everybody here you have the most potential.’

But she had also warned him he needed to ‘finesse’ his moves, and Bruno agreed. ‘You have a lot to offer, but she is right. Refine it. It’s brilliant what you do – but you can be even better.’

More Cher advise to the other stars..

To Brant Daugherty: “You two had two smiles that went together.”

To Bill Engvall after his disco to “Strong Enough”: “Uh, I was amazed you could get her up in all those…positions.” (“It’s a little blue pill,” Engvall clarified.)

To Jack Osbourne: “I thought it was great. You’re like a tango-dancing pimp!”

To Amber Riley after her rumba: “Fabulous. You owned it, you bought it, you got a t-shirt.”

To Tom Bergeron: “As everyone knows, I don’t know how to call out for pizza.”

At one point, during a critique of Elizabeth Berkley and Val Chmerkovskiy (Spiderweb Bodysuit and Shirtless)’s jazz routine set to her song “Bang Bang,” Cher endured one of the LONGEST BLEEPS EVER RECORDED. Damn that 10-second delay! Try to figure out what she said along with me, and check out some other highlights below.

The bleep occurred right after Cher enthused that she’d liked “the rough part” of Elizabeth and Val’s adventures in burlesque. “I like it when…. [BIG LONG BLEEP],” Cher continued. (The offending language begins at 2:26 below.)

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-on-dancing-with-the-stars/feed/25Dancing With The Stars to pay tribute to CHERhttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/dancing-with-the-stars-to-pay-tribute-to-cher/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/dancing-with-the-stars-to-pay-tribute-to-cher/#commentsTue, 29 Oct 2013 00:48:06 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6253Dancing with the Stars is to pay tribute to the one and only Cher and no one was more stunned than Cher herself to learn about this tribute to air on the Nov. 4 show.

Dancing with the Stars is to pay tribute to the one and only Cher and no one was more stunned than Cher herself to learn about this tribute to air on the Nov. 4 show.

“It’s always strange when people do something like this. You’re not thinking about those kinds of things,” she tells PEOPLE. “It just always takes me by surprise. It just does.”

Cher will sing her hit “Believe” and her new song “I Hope You Find It” on the show, as well as serve as a guest judge, but won’t be dancing because of a foot injury she sustained years ago. “I am waiting to have an operation,” she says. “The doctor got a little crankier and said I have to do it.”

Even if she could dance today, you won’t find Cher dancing on DWTS as a contestant. “Aren’t I old enough now not to be a contestant anymore?” the singer, 67, says. “Haven’t I got past the contestant part?”

Her son, Chaz Bono, who was a contestant on DWTS, will be there for the tribute. “I am excited for it and he is too,” she said. “But like me, he is low-key and won’t get excited for it until that day. We are all low-key.”

She says she is “so proud” of his dramatic weight loss. “People talk about losing weight? He did it.”

As for finding love again, she says, “It’s a thought. This is the problem, though. The moment you say you are dating someone, then everything falls to s—. And I am just tired of that.”

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/dancing-with-the-stars-to-pay-tribute-to-cher/feed/53Cher on Graham Nortonhttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-on-graham-norton/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-on-graham-norton/#commentsSat, 26 Oct 2013 22:29:28 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6238Cher appeared on Graham Norton in the UK and the show could barely fit all of these superstars on one chair with Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer and Jennifer Saunders also stopping by.

Cher appeared on Graham Norton in the UK and the show could barely fit all of these superstars on one chair with actor Robert De Niro, actress Michelle Pfeiffer and comedienne Jennifer Saunders also stopping by. Cher performed her new single I Hope You Find It from album Closer To The Truth.

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-on-graham-norton/feed/18Cher performs on X Factor UKhttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-performs-on-x-factor-uk/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-performs-on-x-factor-uk/#commentsSun, 13 Oct 2013 22:11:43 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6208Cher totally ROCKED the X Factor UK stage performing I Hope You Find It from her new album Closer To The Truth.

She’s been in the music industry 40 plus years and tonight Cher totally ROCKED the X Factor stage proving that she is not slowing down any time soon.

Cher was performing her latest single a cover of hit I Hope You Find It, originally sung by Miley Cyrus. Singing live Cher totally NAILED IT!! The crowd were in total awe of this music legend.

Following her performance host Dermot O’Leary asked the singer and actress what advice she could give the 12 hopefuls waiting anxiously backstage. “Just don’t believe the word ‘no’,” Cher told Dermot, when asked what piece of advice she’d give the hopefuls. Great philosophy!

Dressed in a short black and gold dress and leather jacket, with her long wavy hair, Cher defied years, looking like a woman much younger than 67.

The international superstar was on the show to promote her new her album Closer To The Truth. Cher also revealed that she still gets nervous on stage, despite her many years in the music industry. Cher will officially release her album in the UK tomorrow (14 October 2013).

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-performs-on-x-factor-uk/feed/86Cher Turns Back Time in Parishttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-turns-back-time-in-paris/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-turns-back-time-in-paris/#commentsThu, 10 Oct 2013 22:27:17 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6191Cher Turned Back Time in Paris during her appearance on the "Vivement Dimanche" show in Paris Wednesday looking half her 67 years.

Cher Turned Back Time in Paris during her appearance on the “Vivement Dimanche” show in Paris Wednesday looking half her 67 years. The music legend showed off her youthful figure in a thigh skimming leather mini skirt and a pair of black motorcycle boots and fishnet stockings.

Cher blew the minds of the crowd with her youthful appearance and performance of new single I Hope You Find It. While on the French television show, Cher chatted light-heartedly with presenter Michel Drucker, who was clearly excited to be in the presence of a music legend.

Cher is currently in Europe to promote her new album, “Closer to the Truth,”. The songs are so brilliant. I got so lucky,” Cher said about her latest release.

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-turns-back-time-in-paris/feed/35Cher to appear on Graham Norton Show October 25thhttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-to-appear-on-graham-norton-october-25th/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-to-appear-on-graham-norton-october-25th/#commentsThu, 10 Oct 2013 06:07:05 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6182In what is set to be a very memorable TV interview, CHER is set to appear and perform a new track from Closer To The Truth with Michelle Pfeiffer.

In what is set to be a very memorable TV interview, CHER will be interviewed and perform a new track from Closer To The Truth with Michelle Pfeiffer, Jennifer Saunders and Robert De Niro on “The Graham Norton Show” in the UK.

Cher of course starred alongside Michelle Pfeiffer in Witches of Eastwick and the two remain very good friends. Jennifer Saunders has impersonated Cher before during a comedy skit, see the video below.

The last time Cher was on Graham Norton she sat alongside Jennifer’s comedy partner Dawn French in 2010 during the promotion of Burlesque.

]]>http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-to-appear-on-graham-norton-october-25th/feed/4Cher in France – Le Grand Journal Interviewhttp://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-in-france-le-grand-journal-interview/
http://www.cherworld.com/cher-news/cher-in-france-le-grand-journal-interview/#commentsThu, 10 Oct 2013 00:10:59 +0000http://www.cherworld.com/?p=6175Cher appeared on French TV show Le Grand Journal for an interview to promote her new album Closer To The Truth, watch the interview here.

Cher appeared on French TV show Le Grand Journal for an interview to promote her new album Closer To The Truth. Wearing the same jacket as her appearance on the Today show, Cher was asked questions about Miley Cyrus, her new album and how she looks so good for her age. In a strange stunt Cher was interrupted in the middle of talking about paparazzi to kiss a stranger. After this Cher didn’t look too impressed throughout the interview.